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[Daemon Tools] freeze
Hello :) Thanks again for all the work.
I'd like to load up a bin/cue from inside Win98 with Daemon Tools to get past copy protection/DRM.
As specified in the link above, I have first to update the installer by running instmsia.exe before being able to install daemon347.exe. I reboot Windows every time asked. Installation of the tool goes just fine. Once installation is complete I can add/remove virtual optical drives, turn on the various copy protection parameters from within the app. Creating a virtual drive and assigning it a bin/cue also make the game (Warzone 2100) to properly run.
Yet as soon as I reboot Win98 once again or close/restart the core, on the next run Windows 98 will freeze should I try to access File Explorer or enable/disable optical drives from Daemon Tools taskbar icon. Previous game assigned to the virtual drive will now refuse to launch, freezing Windows as well. To be clear, by freezing I mean cursor is still active and can be moved around yet I can no longer click on Start Menu or any desktop icon. Doing so will do nothing.
My config (all drivers/apps to the latest version): Microsoft Windows 10 Family 64 bit (build 19045.6159) Gigabyte X570S AORUS MASTER Default string (BIOS F8g) AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core 3,70 GHz AM4 (AMD64 Family 25 Model 33 Stepping 0) 32GB RAM Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Retroarch 1.21 DOSBox Pure 1.0 Preview 2
Thanks a lot.
Try disabling automounting in Daemon Tools. A bit annoying, but it used to help on DOSBox SVN.
Edit: Tried it on Pure and it doesn't seem to help much, it prevents the initial lock up, but you get a lock up later on. The lock ups for me happen on Diablo 2, which according to pcgw uses Securom 3. On a non-DRM CD, I get a lockup with automount on startup and no lockup without automount although how stable is that going to be - beats me.
Of course that doesn't help your situation since you're trying to emulate the DRM.
